Customized Collections Embedded with Real-Time Cues, and other interactive platforms will mark the museums of the future, writes Nilofar Shamim Haja. Image: The V&A Museum in London. Photo courtesy Chris Ford, Flickr Creative Commons license. Museums today stand...
Image: The Dr Bhau Daji Lad City Museum in Mumbai. Between 2003 and 2007, this museum, established in 1855, has undergone a major restoration under the supervision of the Mumbai chapter of the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH). Till now, we...
In the second part of the Museums in India Series, Poulomi Das explores how museums thrived in pre-Independent India. Image: The Indian Museum in Kolkata, 1907. Photo courtesy: Popular Science Monthly, Volume 71, Wikimedia. The Indian Museum in...
How can curators draft engaging labels, without distracting visitors with too much information about the objects? In part 1 of this post, Lucy Harland writes about the fine art of signage. Image: Visitors at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam | Photo courtesy: Lucy Harland....
Most museums the world over have too much on show – they are indigestible and overpowering. Recent exhibitions and new installations in London show a welcome trend to do more with less in terms of objects, and to engage the emotions as much as the minds of...
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